The Industry Innovation Report
Fury In Ukraine As Elon Musk’s Spacex Limits Starlink Use For Drones
A senior Ukrainian presidential aide has reacted with anger after Elon Musk’s SpaceX said it had taken steps to prevent its Starlink satellite communications service from controlling drones, which are critical to Kyiv’s forces in fighting off the Russian invasion....
AI Has Successfully Imitated Human Evolution—And Might Do It Even Better
A language model AI created proteins as good as ones honed over a million years of evolution. Salesforce’s ProGen designed sequences based on the “sentences” of biological proteins. Scientists are investigating whether the AI could identify...
Melting Robots Are the Future, Accept It
If life as a kid in the 1980s and ’90s taught me anything, it’s that the rise of our machine overlords is a certainty. A new study shows remarkable progress being made in this area, with the development of a hyper-flexible multi-state material that is pretty...
Japan Rolls Out ‘Humble And Lovable’ Delivery Robots
"Excuse me, coming through," a four-wheeled robot chirps as it dodges pedestrians on a street outside Tokyo, part of an experiment businesses hope will tackle labour shortages and rural isolation. From April, revised traffic laws will allow self-driving delivery...
Global Fleet of Autonomous Vehicles May Emit More Carbon Than Argentina
For years, major car companies have been working to add autonomous features to vehicles on the path to fully automated driving (think lane departure warnings, exterior cameras, and smart cruise control). Tesla in particular is betting big on the technology;...
Several Universities To Experiment With Micro Nuclear Power
If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear reactors that produce only one-hundredth the electricity and can even be...
J.D. Power Survey Suggests Public EV Charging Getting Worse
Over the last couple of years, there have been a series of questionnaires hoping to determine how satisfied people are with the United States EV charging infrastructure. Most have been pretty bleak, suggesting that just about everyone driving an electric car...
EV Batteries Getting Second Life On California Power Grid
Hundreds of used electric vehicle battery packs are enjoying a second life at a California facility connected to the state's power grid, according to a company pioneering technology it says will dramatically lower the cost of storing carbon-free energy. B2U Storage...
Can The Power Grid Handle Wave Of New EVs?
A wave of electric cars, SUVs and pickups is headed toward America’s highways, driven by the auto industry’s aggressive rollout, the vehicles’ growing driving range, environmental regulations and government incentives. Experts believe EVs will make up a third or even...
Electrifying Trucking Means Sacrificing Weight For Heavy Batteries
American truck manufacturers like Freightliner and Tesla are already delivering the electric trucks that the industry needs to pivot away from gas engines. New legislation, like the Inflation Reduction Act, is encouraging the change through credits for...
